-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:23, Terje Kvernes wrote: > Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 01:24 am, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > [1] I'm not sure how we'd like to denote subpackages, '-' and > > > '_' are sort of taken. > > > > emerge kde > > emerge kde/kdenetwork > > emerge kde/kdenetwork/kmail > > hm, could we ever get conflict between a subpackage and a catagory? > or are we more looking to say that conceptually we're looking at the > same ting? ;-)
There are enough symbols on the keyboard to have a good delimiter. However what is needed too is a concept on how to do it. Are subpackages compiletime or installtime. Or do we allow both? For example if you want kmail only from kdenetwork many parts of kdenetwork can be left alone (some support libs not), and don't even need to be compiled. In that case it would be possible to have dependant packages specify which subpackages they need, and have them added on-demand if needed (be aware of compiletimes). Installtime is also possible, where packages are fully compiled but partially installed. If a binary package exists it then is possible to do ondemand installation of subpackages without recompiles being necessary. However with installtime subpackages there is the problem of identifying which files should be part of the subpackages. This does not mean that I am principally against subpackages, but that subpackages are indeed complex and probably need to wait for portage-ng for support. Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qMbfbKx5DBjWFdsRAo+AAKCRxnv1bBiAdZ5JmN06AOKBDzeW/QCgzZvJ vdHsUO1U6hQbBjituNnbN4Y= =feWv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
